Long padded down coats - are they a bit frumpy?

The only people I see wearing them are mums on the school run...now, nothing wrong with that per se, but I'm just looking for something stylish, practical, but a bit, erm, fashionable, for want of a better word.

I am 37, quite tall, size 12-14 and am not trying to pretend I'm 19 or anything, but neither do I want to age myself either. I have a short padded coat which is very warm and light but it is enormous and I feel like Michelin woman so I think the longer padded ones are more slimming. Also my current coat isn't very waterproof with no hood so no good at all in snow/a lot of rain.

I've got a northface one, its fitted, lightweight and very warm. I wear it when its freezing - school run, the woods, walks etc. I quite like it, but its hardly high fashion, and I wouldn't wear it to town or on a night out. I don't like the one you linked to though sorry.

I had this, it isn't that toasty warm, to be honest (but I feel the cold something chronic) and not that water repellant , which is why I returned it. I did feel a bit frumpy. Lands end let you return stuff no matter how long you have had it. I bought a nice fake fur instead.

Asda have some nice ones. Moda one has a belt and it's only £35 so not the end of the world if you get bored with it and they have 25 percent off today. I think they look alright but I'm 27 and think they are a bit old for me!I prefer the look of the short belted quilted jackets rather then padded.

i have a landsend long down coat and i don't think it adds a stone. maybe because it's quite longto the knees so the effect is long rather than barrel. I hope. I hope. but like i said when it gets cold you don't care that much.

I would prefer a northface coat but twice the price of a landsend one. maybe more because i bought mine when it was 20% off.

I have the North Face Arctic. I loathe and love it in equal measure. It is frumpsville without a doubt, but I live in a place with harsh Winters and it is brilliant in the cold. Don't know though if the UK climate really requires this sort of coat though.....anytime I am home it is the rain that is the problem.

well i'm in ireland and I could do with another one. I have one landsends coat that is worn to a thread because i've had it seven years and despite having other coats it's the one i end up wearing late november to mid feb. the rain is not as bad as the stereotype suggests in my part of ireland.

i was in a fancy sports shop yesterday stroking the GREY long north face and I thought it was lovely the way the hood was built in. and it's thinner than the landsend. not frumpy at all i thought! would be gorgeous with pink scarve I thought.